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Statistically speaking, Bonds in '02 is the best

By Alan Schwarz
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Wednesday night at the Boston chapter meeting of the American Statistical Association, Harvard statistics professor Carl Morris will not be discussing new graphical methods in health-care modeling or legal technometrics, the society's conventional fare. The subject will be dear to Morris' heart -- "Professional Baseball and Markov Modeling," and the proof of his new theorem that, when used to evaluate player performance, rates Barry Bonds as now finishing up by far the best offensive season of a ...

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